{"id":5970,"date":"2012-06-26T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2012-06-26T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T20:25:14","slug":"warning-to-my-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5970","title":{"rendered":"Warning To My Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site uses, among other things, a product called &#8220;Sitemeter&#8221; to track visits. \u00a0 The other day I noticed when looking at my visit reports on the Sitemeter web page, I kept getting requests to log in from a funny looking popup window, similar to this one that Towleroad was seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sitemeter_hacked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5971\" title=\"sitemeter_hacked\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sitemeter_hacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sitemeter_hacked.jpg 480w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/sitemeter_hacked-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>The value of having my eternally suspicious nature: I saw this prompt come up several times on the main Sitemeter site after I was already logged in and figured something nefarious was going on. \u00a0 There was.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson is: never enter your login credentials into popup windows that suddenly seem to appear out of nowhere and when you didn&#8217;t expect to have to log in.<\/p>\n<p>Since no one has to log in to view my web site I assume everyone who visits would know this isn&#8217;t for real if they saw it. \u00a0 But I&#8217;m telling you now in case you ever wonder: you don&#8217;t need to create accounts or log in here. \u00a0 If you ever see a login screen come up while you&#8217;re reading my blog or looking at anything else around here, it isn&#8217;t real and for goodness sakes don&#8217;t give it any information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site uses, among other things, a product called &#8220;Sitemeter&#8221; to track visits. \u00a0 The other day I noticed when looking at my visit reports on the Sitemeter web page, I kept getting requests to log in from a funny looking popup window, similar to this one that Towleroad was seeing&#8230; The value of having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,45],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-blogging","tag-the-criminal-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}